Sometimes love can be a drug. Blinding you to the hold that someone can have over you. An addiction to a person that is potentially unhealthy.
Category Archives: Strength
Broken in Pieces
Personal change can be difficult. Changing the dynamic of a relationship can be daunting. A voyage of self discovery is sometimes necessary in order to effect the change.
Haiku for Healing
When times get tough a strong heart will see you through
Winner Takes All
The poem expresses the speaker’s experience of being stifled and alienated by someone’s selfishness and anger. Despite this, the speaker asserts their victory by reclaiming their joy and refusing to be broken. The poem emphasizes the resilience and triumph of laughter in the face of adversity.
Wounded Dignity
Wounded Dignity
Walk away they said
As if it were that easy
Walk away
You can do it
The guilt is not yours to carry
It is no longer your karma
Walk
Walk quickly
Walk like you mean it
All Said and Done
All Said and Done It is said and done What else is there? A new broom sweeps away feelings of two lives trying to be one Some still caught in the corners of the mind Buried deep in grooves Where time has washed over Unable to flush them all out Yet there they are EveryContinue reading “All Said and Done”
Shift in the Status Quo – A Quadrille
Shift in the Status Quo Sensing a shift in the status quo Ever so slight but I read you well Having been here before At first it was devastating The beginning of the end Now after weathering the storms that are named for you I go with the flow Copyright © 2023 Christine Bolton –Continue reading “Shift in the Status Quo – A Quadrille”
Emboldened – A Quadrille
Emboldened As much as he triedshe refused to waverOh so easy to sink backinto material comfortThose things keptthe wolf from the doorbut starved the brainof nourishmentEmboldened, and witha shake of the head,she never looked backCopyright © 2023 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights ReservedDe is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets.Her prompt tonight isContinue reading “Emboldened – A Quadrille”
Clipped Wings – A Quadrille
Clipped Wings As hard as you might tryI will never be controlledThinking my spirit can be groundedBy clipping my wingsWill only make me run fasterLike the wind I can never be caughtI am free to blow whichever way I chooseCopyright © 2022 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights ReservedDe Jackson is hosting Monday QuadrilleContinue reading “Clipped Wings – A Quadrille”
D.I.V.O.R.C.E – Poem of the Month – August 2022
D.I.V.O.R.C.E I stare at the paperThe type as blackas my heartBold as my actionsI see my name and your namebut my eyes refuse to go furtherThe rest is a blurred mangleof words and emotionsthat delivered this decreeCopyright © 2022 Christine Bolton – Poetry for HealingAll Rights ReservedDe Jackson is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse PoetsandContinue reading “D.I.V.O.R.C.E – Poem of the Month – August 2022”
Poetry For Healing 